Current Events > Checking in on USA flag places on the moon

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https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/594364/

The flag is no longer standing. In fact, its been flat on the ground since the moment Aldrin and Neil Armstrong lifted off. As the Eagle module ignited its engines and rose, spewing exhaust around, Aldrin caught a glimpse of the flag falling from his window.

The flag, made of nylon, was an off-the-shelf purchase. Unlike Earth, the moon lacks an atmosphere capable of blocking out the worst of the suns rays. It wouldnt have taken long for the ultraviolet light to eat away at the dye and bleach the flag white. Have you ever seen burnt newspaper from a fireplace? All the color is gone and everything, says Dennis LaCarrubba, who worked at the New Jerseybased company that manufactured the flag. Thats probably what the flag would look like now.

The photographic evidence for this came decades later, thanks to NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft that still circles the moon today. The spacecrafts camera photographed several Apollo landing sites. The NASA astronauts who flew to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s always brought American flags with them. In photos of later Apollo missions, you can see, amid all the pockmarked gray terrain, a little white smudge and, right next to it, a slightly bigger, black smudgea flag, faded from the glow of the sun, and its shadow.

The resolution of the orbiters cameras isnt strong enough to make out the Apollo astronauts boot prints, but some were no doubt blasted out of existence when the exhaust of the Eagles engines slammed into the regolith. Subsequent Apollo missions captured footage of the turbulent experience of liftoff. You can see a severe blowing occurring; you can see flags flapping in the wind like its a hurricane; you can see dust lifting off the surface everywhere, says Phil Metzger, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida.

Unfortunate.

Should have placed the flag further away from where you are gonna blast rocket fuel lmao.
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So why doesn't the cheese spoil?
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Silver Bearings posted...

So why doesn't the cheese spoil?

The bacteria that causes spoilage would probably die in the moon's atmosphere.
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darkphoenix181 posted...

Silver Bearings posted...

So why doesn't the cheese spoil?

The bacteria that causes spoilage would probably die in the moon's atmosphere.

Good answer
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I was always aware of the flag being blown over looking at video clips of the liftoff.

Then there was the Superman movie where he stands it back up.
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Pretty unpatriotic of the moon tbh
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We came in peace for all mankind
*places flag of a country who is actively stockpiling nukes at the time*
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RescueBC posted...

We came in peace for all mankind
*places flag of a country who is actively stockpiling nukes at the time*

Then knocks it over and covers it in debris.
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RescueBC posted...

We came in peace for all mankind
*places flag of a country who is actively stockpiling nukes at the time*

trump's America

even if it were left standing it'd still be bleached white, which is probably appropriate because it should be viewed as a human achievement rather than an American one